Rail logistics company Bulkmatic to invest US $250M in northern Mexico

Bulkmatic de México, a logistics institution for Mexico’s main railway terminals, volition put US $250 cardinal successful a caller intermodal terminal successful Pesquería, Nuevo León, arsenic it seeks to amended proviso concatenation infrastructure successful the country.

The terminal volition inhabit a 100-hectare tract adjacent the Monterrey International Airport and concern complexes lodging KIA and Ternium. The determination is portion of a larger concern program successful excess of US $600 million, which the institution plans to instrumentality implicit the adjacent 10 years.

Bulkmatic, a North American person successful bulk trucking and obstruction logistics, is expanding successful Mexico acknowledgment to its accent connected sectors that person benefited from the nearshoring boom. (Bulkmatic/on X)

Camilo Gómez, commercialized manager of Bulkmatic, said the caller terminal volition person the capableness to grip commodities specified arsenic steel, paper, lumber and, primarily, grains – sectors that are increasing acknowledgment to the nearshoring boom. 

The terminal volition besides beryllium capable to person up to 2 portion trains, chiefly focusing connected atom storage. It volition person the capableness to grip up to 1,300 obstruction cars, making it 1 of the largest successful the country.

For context, the company’s largest terminal successful Tula, Hidalgo, has capableness for 380 cars, portion its terminal successful Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León, handles 230 cars. 

The terminal volition diagnostic precocious infrastructure, including silos for grains and minerals, tanks for petrochemicals, and warehouses for hazardous chemicals and integrative resins, arsenic good arsenic a 23-hectare country to store automobiles and steel. It volition besides beryllium connected to the obstruction networks of CPKC de México and Ferromex, facilitating logistics and enhancing the competitiveness of its customers.

Bulkmatic CEO Alejandro Doria noted that logistics integration successful North America has been cardinal to determination prosperity, driven by the USMCA and the obstruction systems of Mexico, the United States and Canada. 

Doria added that since its accomplishment successful Mexico successful 1996, Bulkmatic has grown on with determination trade. Today, it operates much than 14 terminals successful the state and connects to much than 40 points of root and destination. Some of these terminals are located successful Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León; Tula, Hidalgo; and the Valley of Mexico.

Overall, Bulkmatic handles astir 45,000 obstruction cars annually, equivalent to 4 cardinal tons of assorted earthy materials. Ninety percent of the earthy materials it receives by obstruction are distributed to much than 800 Mexican manufacturing plants, wherever they are transformed into products specified arsenic cars, refrigerators and syringes. 

Many finished products are exported to North America for the last consumer.

With reports from El Economista and Mexico Industry